. . .but who have used this knowledge and power only to depress them, and to make them serve the interests of intelligent greed and lust.

The negro, religious, but full of superstition and sensuousness, whose religion consists largely in seeing visions and dreaming dreams, and singing songs of a heaven they are unfit for—a religion, too, which has been almost utterly divorced from morality. As General Armstrong says: “The story of the devout old Auntie who would go to the communion service, and not let one poor old goose (that she had stolen) come between her and her blessed Lord, shows how little a broken commandment disturbs the peace of the unenlightened.” The Indian, with a vague and dreamy notion of a Great Spirit, and a happy hunting ground, and a definite fear of the medicine men, who send evil spirits to possess them, and drive away disease with a dance. The Chinaman, with the remains of an ancient civilization, which has taught him to imita. . . Read More